Higher Education Commission reviews curriculum on environment
Islamabad: The curriculum of Environmental Sciences should be revised not only to develop human resource to fulfil the market needs but also to develop environment friendly citizens.
This was stated by Professor Dr. Riaz-ul-Haq Tariq, member academics, Higher Education Commission while addressing to the preliminary meeting of the National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) of HEC on Environmental Science which was held at HEC Regional Centre to revise the curriculum for BS four years degree Programme in the discipline.
Professor Tariq, sharing his academics experiences with the committee members, further said that education is a need of every society and it is the system of education, which devices curriculum to provide desirable experiences.
Curriculum and instruction provide flesh to the skeleton of the goals and aims of education. Curriculum development is a continuous process in which choices of learning experiences are made and activated through coordinated activities, he added.
Professor Dr. Shafiqur Rehman of Peshawar University and Dr. Khalid Farooq Akbar of G C University Faisalabad acted as Convener and Secretary of the committee respectively. Muhammad Tahir Ali Shah, Assistant Director (Curriculum) of Higher Education Commission, Islamabad coordinated the meeting and briefed the participants about HEC's template of curriculum revision for four years BS degree programme.
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